Flowgorithm
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| Paradigm | structured, imperative |
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| Designed by | Devin Cook |
| First appeared | 2014 |
| Stable release | 1.11.1 / January 15, 2016 |
| Typing discipline | Static, strong, safe |
| Implementation language | C# |
| OS |
Windows (planned for OS X and Linux) |
| License | Freeware |
| Filename extensions | .fprg |
| Website |
flowgorithm |
| Influenced by | |
| Flowcharts | |
Flowgorithm is a graphical authoring tool which allows students to write and execute programs using flowcharts. The approach is designed to emphasize the algorithm rather than the syntax of a specific programming language. The flowchart can be converted to several major programming languages.
Origin of name
The name is a portmanteau of "flowchart" and "algorithm".[1]
Supported Programming Languages
Flowgorithm can generate programs in the following programming languages:[2]
- C++
- C#
- Delphi
- Java
- JavaScript
- Lua
- Perl
- Python
- QBasic
- Ruby
- Swift 2
- Visual Basic for Applications
- Visual Basic .NET
Multilingual support
Besides English, Flowgorithm supports other languages. These are:[2]
- Chinese
- Czech
- French
- Galician
- German
- Hungarian
- Italian
- Japanese
- Portuguese
- Spanish
Graphical shapes
Flowgorithm combines the classic flowchart symbols and those used by SDL diagrams.
Example
The image below is the solution for 99 Bottles of Beer.
See also
Other educational programming languages include:
References
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Flowgorithm. |
- ↑ "Info". Flowgorithm. Retrieved 2016-01-15.
- 1 2 "Features". Flowgorithm. Retrieved 2016-01-15.
External links
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